If it’s coarse fish you want, Twin Lakes have a great lake full of mixed coarse fish - roach, bream, carp and perch.

It’s a very deep lake and you can catch specimen perch to 4lb if targeted using chopped worm and lobworm on a 10s hook.

Sephton Farm fished well on Sunday for silver fish with Matt Roberts putting together 19lb 15oz of bream and roach to take top spot. Andy Bridge was just behind Matt with 17lb 14oz and Phil GIlbert came third with 14lb 4oz.

Matches are drawn every Sunday morning at 9am.

Rosemary Wood large lake is fishing well on popped up false sweetcorn, carp being the main species on this method.

Good pike fishing on Three Pools, Southport, fish to 16lb reported using dead baits.

Best bait seems to be mackerel whole. Use Joey mackerel, which are a lot smaller, on No 4 trebles.

The canals are a lot harder now. Roach to small break punch and pinkie over liquidised bread.

Some large pike into double figures being caught at Rufford Canal, again on dead baits. Lots of jacks but larger pike are around. Use bigger baits for these.

Sea Fishing

Southport Sea Anglers had a match on Sunday at the Alexandra Dock, Liverpool.

Fishing was very hard due to driving rain and Mick Johnson from Southport won the match with just four fish - dabs and whiting.

Much better news on the Mersey. Great at Jaguar House this week. Lots of whiting and codling. Again Mick Johnson found the cod on Tuesday fishing frozen black lugworm, Mick caught steadily all through low tide to high and was rewarded with a decent brace of codling.